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A Robo-lution on the Strawberry Field

Austin Tang — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:57:40 +0000

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A Robo-lution on the Strawberry Field

Sustainable crop growing with fewer sources and without using chemical products is the future trend in agriculture. Robots play a crucial role in this scenario. But training, programming, controlling and maintaining robots can quickly become complex. And this is exactly where Siemens comes in. But first things first: strawberries.

The path of a strawberry from the tiny seed in the greenhouse to the sweet fruit on the supermarket shelf is long and winding. It involves many steps and a lot of manual labor. Or rather it did. In their approach of revolutionizing strawberry harvesting with robotics Ráječek farm uses two types of robots to make farming strawberries easier and more sustainable:

The Fravebot Scout for monitoring plant health and ripeness
The Fravebot Harvestor for picking the fruit

“Dividing work tasks between two robot types is beneficial in many aspects,” explains Vratislav Beneš, the chief constructor at Fravebot. “The Scouts, whose primary task is to monitor plants, move around the greenhouses faster, and if they were to do some other work simultaneously, it would delay them. It is the other way round – working robots work effectively in cases where they drive out only where they are needed.

The Fravebot Harvestor picking fresh fruit

The digital farm

On top of the robots a digital twin environment by NVIDIA is key on the Ráječek farm. It helps develop, simulate, and deploy an AI that is meant to be the robots brain. Thanks to their training using the digital twin of plants and fruits in the NVIDIA Omniverse the robots are able to detect diseases and pests is the real world. The interface between real and digital world comes from Siemens: the Siemens Xcelerator.

As today’s simulation tools can also simulate physical laws (e.g., the weight of strawberries), the robot’s neural networks can be trained in advance without the need to move around the real environment. This approach significantly accelerates the robot development process and reduces costs. “I think that is the main path to follow: not to focus merely on the robotic part but also analytics and the user interface for plant growers,” emphasises Matěj Sklenář from the Sklenář family, who own the Ráječek farm.

Thanks to a technology library robot programming and control is easier than ever eliminating the need to have two programming environments. Which means the combination between the real and the digital worlds is closer and simpler than ever.

Digital technology, real delight.

Smart harvest on the horizon

Robotic farmers offer a wide array of applications. Besides strawberries and tomatoes, robots can be used to grow and harvest other crop plants, but also ornamental plants, mainly of flowers whose appearance and integrity matter most. The only restriction is the need for a greenhouse infrastructure, i.e., tracks on which the robot moves. With the emergence and the proliferation we will see more and more farms make the most of the combination of data, AI, and robotics. Hence laying the foundation for truly smart and sustainable farming.

The team of Siemens, Ráječek farm, and Fravebot revolutionizing the way we harvest

This article was initially published on SiemensPress.cz

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Pause The World

Austin Tang — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:57:44 +0000

Pause The World – We are featuring once again our concept Pause The World, for the International Day of Peace on September 10, 11 & 21, 2022 in Central Park, Times Square and the World. Previously our 2013 Pause the World event took place at Strawberry Fields, in Central Park, next to the Imagine Symbol. We continue to Imagine and truly believe that most of the world lives in Peace and Love, so we strengthen that message of the “Good People” and try to help those who don’t live that way. Join Us. Go to www.peacedayparty.org as well.

International Day of Peace & Ecology World Celebration & Party – Global Truce 2013. This was our event years ago. We have had this dream to Pause the World for many years… I feel it is coming true due to the Coronavirus, but this is a sad way, I used to think it would come because there was a hole in the ozone, lately, people question our environmental condition as a reason to pause. The important reality is in our CONSCIENCE, in knowing the fact that we are all brothers and sisters and that we can act for the common good or bad. That we are all connected, including the animal and plant kingdom. And that we should stick together, as one, om, and be honored and respectful of all, as we all are all.
Reverend, Paul All Faiths and Spiritual.

International Day of Peace & EcologyWorld Celebration & Party – Global Truce

September 21, 2004 – New York City and the World

PauseTheWorld.org GoodNewsPlanet.com/pausetheworld
NEW YORK, NY, DECEMBER 2004
Dear Members and Friends,

Happy and Healthy Holiday. May all your Dreams come true.

Good News Foundation, a 501 C3, relies on support from the community, International Day of Peace & Ecology World Celebration & Party – Global Truce 2013 . We also use donations to help interns connect and learn about media. Over the years we helped more than 300 interns become the next generation of production people. Your funds will also go to humanitarian projects that we do. Go to: GoodNewsPlanet.com/corporate-outreach/our-corporate-outreach/ to read more. . Help keep this venue available and support the spirit – Thank you!

Here is our Dream. Good News Corporation, our 501 c3 non-profit corp., along with many have organized a grand celebration for the U.N.’s International Peace Day. These “GREEN” global events will be represented by the World, Military, UN and Religious Leaders, song and entertainment performed by a world class cast of singers, speakers and more. NOTE: We still have to raise the money for the events and secure participants.

Admission will be open to all as a free lottery. The show will also be given free to the world media, broadcast, and WEB, we plan on over two billion viewers. PauseTheWorld.org and GoodNewsPlanet.com/pausetheworld will broadcast all content. Satellite and phone feeds around the world will be included in the show, from similar concerts, the war fields, our streets, our schools, and wherever there is a need for a global truce to drop “arms” and conduct nonviolent communications. 2012 consisted of many worldwide events organized by those who care about this Peace Day, which included Elton John at Wembley, England, and a Peace wave from New Zealand to Honolulu, plus 1000′s of other events. WE have a “DREAM PEACE SHOW” of speakers, entertainers, and bands. The Good News is that there are so many who are worthy. We will share the show with you shortly.

The worldwide production budget that we need to raise is $8.5 million dollars. A $2 million dollar worldwide promotion budget needs to be pursued. (Full Business, Media and Production Plan Available). However much we will raise will be spent; as there are 7 Billion people who we hope will celebrate! Park audience will be 60,000.

NOTE: If we cannot raise the funds for major events, we will still create this celebration. “Actionable Practical Acts of Peace” is the STAR of this show, our events will support the need for Peace Acts. PEACE = Non Violence. Good News has been involved with, Susana Bastarrica’s The Vigil for International Peace & Ecology for 11 years at the Band Shell in Central Park we will broadcast it on 9/21 as well.

Our events will celebrate all the people living peacefully. We plan to try to create a world holiday for September 21st each year. THERE IS NO REASON WHY WE CAN’T MAKE THIS HAPPEN. WE ARE CONFIDENT THAT TOGETHER WE WILL PAUSE THE WORLD FOR A CELEBRATION AND PARTY FOR PEACE. PLEASE JOIN US.

All donations will go directly to these Peace Events, so please make a tax deductible donation to: www.peacedayparty.org

Please become a member of Good News and share your video/audio and text on Peace and any other Good News.Go to: GoodNewsPlanet.com/general-memberships/

Once again, we wish you all the best and look forward to your participation and support.To volunteer contact us at: paul.sladkus@goodnewsbroadcast.com

Paul Sladkus and the Good News Team

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David Ippolito – That Guitar Man who has been singing in Central Park and other wonderful locations for over 30 years. We love him

Austin Tang — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 20:29:58 +0000

Listen to “David Ippolito – That Guitar Man who has been singing in Central Park and other wonderful…” on Spreaker.

Singer/songwriter David Ippolito wrote a new song, inspired by John Lennon’s “Imagine”, to reach back in time and speak to people with whom he spent his childhood, high school years, and time as a young man. “SOME of US” And here’s one from Merkin with a powerful message. (That guys like you are actually in the lyric.) http://www.thatguitarman.com/

David sang for our Good News International Day of Peace Event in Strawberry Fields back in 2004. It was pouring and David still performed, sang Imagine and I never forgot about him, he is a blessings. Go to the Hill in Central Park on the weekends when Covid Subsides and he is performing again. Enter Strawberry Fields and walk 100 yards north to the hill. Check out his website. http://www.thatguitarman.com/

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